How Connecticut Lawmakers Voted

March 31, 1996|By The Hartford Courant SOURCE: Roll Report Syndicate

SENATE

1. VETO

The Senate approved, 69-31, a line-item veto bill that allows presidents to reject individual spending items within a bill without having to kill the entire measure. A yes vote backed the bill which, in part, also allows presidents to kill certain tax breaks. (S4)

2. WAGE

The Senate failed, 55-45, to achieve the required three-fifths majority to force a vote on raising the minimum wage from $4.25 to $5.15 an hour. A yes vote backed the Democratic bid to end a GOP filibuster against the wage hike vote, (HR 1296)

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Dodd (D) Yea Nay

Lieberman (D) Nay Nay

HOUSE

1. ABORTION

The House voted, 286-129, to prohibit doctors from performing a late-term abortion procedure in which they partially extract the fetue, collapse its skull and remove it. A yes vote banned the abortion except to save the mother's life. (HR 1833)

2. DEBT

The House passed, 328-91, a bill raising the U.S. debt limit and accepting a Senate-passed line-item veto (above). A yes vote also backed an omnibus Contract With America bill to raise the earnings limit for those on Social Security. (HR 3136)

3. HEALTH

Voting 267-151, the Houise passed a bill making it easier for workers to maintain health insurance if they lose or switch jobs. A yes vote alos banned insurance firms from denying coverage based on pre-existing medical conditions. (HR 3103)

4. DEMOCRATIC ALTERNATIVE

Voting 192-226, the House rejected a Democrat-sponsored alternative to the Republican health care bill (above). A yeas vote backed portability and pre-existing condition protection but opposed most other provisions of the GOP bill. (HR 3103)